Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The drive back to Silver Moon Harbor felt like racing through a nightmare where the road kept stretching longer with each mile, no

matter how hard I pressed the accelerator. My hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles had gone white, and I could taste copper in my mouth from where I’d bitten my lip hard enough to draw blood.

My phone had gone completely black after that final call with Ophelia, the screen cracked and unresponsive no matter how frantically I

pressed the power button. Now it was nothing but a useless piece of plastic and metal, cutting me off from any updates about Adrian’s

situation.

“Please,” I whispered to any god who might be listening, pressing the dead phone against my chest like a talisman. “Please let him be safe.

I’ll do anything. Just let my baby be okay.”

The moment I reached the school parking lot, I was out of the car and running toward the building on legs that felt like jelly. My high

heels clicked frantically against the asphalt as I raced toward the main entrance, my heart hammering so hard against my ribs I thought

it might burst.

The front doors were locked-of course they were locked, school had ended hours ago. I pounded on the glass with both fists, not caring

that I probably looked like a madwoman, until a janitor finally appeared from somewhere in the depths of the building.

“Ma’am, school’s been closed for-”

“My son!” I gasped, pressing my face against the glass. “Someone took my son! I need to speak with his teacher, with anyone who was

here, please!”

The janitor’s expression softened as he took in my obvious distress. He unlocked the door and stepped aside to let me in. “What’s your boy’s name? I can try calling Mrs. Henderson at home.”

“Adrian Knight,” I said, my voice breaking on his name. “He’s in Mrs. Henderson’s class. Someone picked him up who wasn’t supposed to.”

Mrs. Henderson arrived within twenty minutes. She found me sitting in the hallway outside her classroom, my head in my hands as I

to keep breathing through the panic attacks that kept washing over

dear,

eyes that felt swollen from

went pale. “The woman said she was his aunt. She had

at work and had asked her to pick him

ask, though

trailed off, guilt flooding

Of course

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teacher who was still standing nearby with guilt written across her kind face. “I need to borrow your phone. Mine

were shaking so badly I could barely manage to remove

Henderson’s phone.

I dialed Valerie’s number from memory. My blood turned

each tone echoing in the empty hallway like a

answered on

with greetings or pleasantries. “Valerie, I

sister dear!” Valerie’s voice bubbled through the speaker with sickening

kidnapping. “My, my,

Son.” Each word came out sharp as

was light and musical. “I really couldn’t say

desk to keep from collapsing as the implications of her words hit me

old! Where did you take

need to get hysterical,” Valerie said. “I’m sure he’ll turn

anyway.”

carrying every ounce of maternal fury I possessed. “I will tear your

to death if anything

hasn’t improved your temper at all.” Valerie’s

worry-I might be willing to tell you where I left the little darling. For a price,

words

quite generous-he’s even willing to raise that little bastard as

told you no,” I said, my voice growing stronger with each

you are, Valerie said. “Because if you don’t show up at the Knight house within two hours, ready to

might have a very lonely night in the